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    Teaching children meditation

    Am curious if any of you have any experience with incorporating a meditation practice into your child(ren)’s daily routine? And how do you go about encouraging a mindful presence, especially when children enter their teenage years. I feel younger children are inherently more present in the...
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    Kids Are Born Scientists

    "Let Kids Be Kids"! :)
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    What is Conscious Parenting?

    I was thinking about what 'Conscious Parenting' actually means to me, so I decided to do a little research. Not surprisingly, conscious parenting just like much else in life comes back to the individual's healing journey. It involves truly knowing yourself, your emotional triggers and making...
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    Allergic reaction to...?

    I had a massive allergic reaction starting yesterday afternoon and leading to my husband calling in the Dr at 4am because I had a panic attack, couldn't breathe and nearly fainted. I got a shot and a pill. 8 hours later am still feeling the effects of the drugs, very nauseous and drowsy but my...
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    How to be human – we are more alike than we are different

    The Montessori teacher that manages the playgroup I've taken my son to has written a beautiful article on how humans are more alike than we are different and how the Montessori philosophy applies this principle in their classrooms and we as parents can embrace and teach it to our children. I...
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    Otherworldly illustrations by Ivan Laliashvili

    These are so beautiful, they took my breath away. I had a sense of homecoming when I saw them. WOW <3 Here is the rest of Ivan's portfolio: http://ivanlaliashvili.deviantart.com/?rnrd=166003
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    7 Happiness Tools we can Give our Children

    "Our second daughter started college last fall. She’s an old soul who’s always strummed to her own beat, so it wasn’t surprising that she’d found high school restrictive and uninspiring, both academically and socially. But, as we’d hoped, college has been a different story. She’s thriving in the...
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    10 habits to shape a kind, well-adjusted child

    "Parenting is a very complex task. If we’re not careful, we will become too focused on one aspect and let the others fall by the wayside. Many times, I see parents who are intently focused on discipline, and I’m talking about the traditional use of the word here with regard to modifying...
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    WHERE MY SOUL PLACES ME IS NOT FOR ME TO JUDGE

    This piece touched me deeply so sharing it with my RT community <3 "Where my Soul places me is not for me to judge. There is always something I can be giving in every situation I am placed in. There is always a deeper place that I am being asked to open to in my heart. If I stop judging my...
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    A Hathor World Meditation Through Tom Kenyon

    "We are using the metaphor of a hurricane or cyclone to describe the situation your world is now facing. In the midst of the destructive power of these metaphorical “storms” there is a center place of silence. It is called the “Eye of the Storm.” As the current Chaotic Node increases in...
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    Tips Tentative List of Resources for Parents

    I would like to start a thread in which we can all share our resources for (to be/new) parents. In this list we can include anything from books to articles, podcasts, songs, blogs, mantras and stories. Basically anything that has helped or inspired us in any given situation with our children...
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    Ten Habits that infringe on rights of children and how to change them

    This is a great article that touches on some habits we may have taken on without giving it much thought but in reality they impede the rights of our children. As the author rightfully points out, "a fairer world begins in the home". Although some of these things resonate more than others, I...
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    New sound meditation by Tom Keynon: 23-Feb-2017

    Here is Tom's next sound meditation, which I received today. "This new sound meditation is called Restoration. It is, in fact, a celestial chorus from the higher realms of light that can impart to you deeply nourishing and restorative energies." You can download it on to your device here...
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    How to guide youngsters with an addiction problem?

    In my family, there have been many cases of drug addiction, often involving adult men. My little brother, who is in his early twenties grapples with a drug and gambling addiction. When I was his age I certainly experimented a lot with drugs as well. However, I still managed to keep my life...
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    Info Introduction to the Conscious Parenting Board

    Welcome to the Conscious Parenting Board. As said, it can take a village to raise a child. However, in today's world we often find ourselves isolated from our community. This can be very challenging, especially when raising children in a world that is changing rapidly. Gifted little ones can...
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    The seed as physician

    During my reading with our lovely Anne, one of the questions I asked was about how to best guide my son so that he could achieve his life's purpose. The answer was to read the series "The Ringing Cedars of Russia" by V. Megre. But more about that in a different post on the conscious parenting...
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    Five important factors in raising self-disciplined & happy children?

    As a (new) mum all of these five points resonate with me very much. How about the mums and dads in this community. Do these points resonate and/or do you have other factors you would like to add to this list? The article goes to explain that in order to raise children who become...
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    Education is not a Production Line

    In this article Sadhguru looks at how formal education today focuses on only one aspect of human intelligence, and why this needs to change immediately. "Today, the world is no longer about people, it is about the economic engine we have built. It has become bigger than us and we are afraid to...
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    Researching vaccines: Where do we start

    To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? This can be a very challenging question to answer for (new) parents (to be) and researching this polarising topic can be very daunting. This article on where to start when researching vaccines is really helpful to get you on your way...
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    Crystals for Kids

    "Naturally attracted to the beauty and energies contained within the stones, I started collecting crystals and tapping into their healing and balancing properties at a very young age. Creating a crystal meditation for kids is a fun way to teach children how to be mindful and will foster healthy...